93: The true demonic energy is raging and running away

"Roar—!"

Lord Erosion Bone let out a terrifying, inhuman roar towards the sky! From the gaps in the pitch-black bone armor covering his body, dark red Devilish Qi patterns twisted and spread like living things, emanating an evil aura that made one's Soul tremble. The Devilish Claw, scorched by Zhao Yuanchen's Golden Sun Divine Power, rapidly shed its charring under the infusion of dense Devilish Qi. Granulation tissue wriggled at the wound, healing and expanding at a visible rate! The newly grown bone armor was even thicker and more ferocious, and the Devilish Flames entwined around it changed from dark red to a viscous, blood-like deep black!

"Zhao Yuanchen! Die!" Lord Erosion Bone's voice was like two rusty iron sheets rubbing together, incredibly grating. He launched both claws, no longer simple slashes, but carving out countless pitch-black trajectories that tore through space! Each trajectory left behind a viscous Devilish Qi that seemed to swallow light, accompanied by sharp wails of ghosts and gods, covering Zhao Yuanchen like an overwhelming tide! Wherever it passed, even space slightly distorted, and the reefs below silently turned into dust!

"You fiend!" Zhao Yuanchen's hair stood on end, his eyes wide with fury. Facing this overwhelmingly fierce assault, he dared not be careless in the slightest. The ancient tortoise shell jade pendant hanging from his waist once again lit up with dazzling light, instantly transforming into a massive golden light shield inscribed with profound Eight Trigram runes, firmly protecting his entire body. At the same time, he formed hand seals as fast as flying, murmuring incantations.

"Golden Crow illuminates the world! Burn Devils and cleanse evil!"

Buzz!

Above his head in the Void Realm, a brilliant light wheel, about a zhang in diameter, condensed from pure Golden Sun power, suddenly appeared! Within the light wheel, the majestic phantom of a Three-Legged Golden Crow faintly flapped its wings and let out a long cry! A terrifying high temperature, scorching, sacred, and capable of incinerating all evil, instantly spread out, evaporating large empty spaces in the surrounding viscous Devilish Qi!

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Countless Devilish Claw trajectories that tore through space slammed violently onto the Eight Trigram Golden Shield! A terrifying roar, like rain hitting banana leaves, erupted! The Golden Shield vibrated violently, the Eight Trigram runes on its surface spun madly, and the golden light flickered erratically. Each collision exploded with large amounts of foul Devilish Qi and golden light fragments! Although the light shield was not broken, Zhao Yuanchen's body continuously retreated under the immense impact, and the Flying Sword beneath his feet let out a groan of unbearable strain!

"Go!" A sharp glint flashed in Zhao Yuanchen's eyes, and he pointed his fingers sharply at Corrosion Bone!

The "Golden Crow Illuminating World Wheel" above his head rotated with a roar, and a scorching beam of light, condensed to the extreme, like liquid gold, carrying the might to burn mountains and boil seas, instantly pierced through the Void Realm, directly striking Lord Erosion Bone's chest! Wherever the light beam passed, the lingering Devilish Claw trajectories melted like ice and snow!

"Mere trickery!" Lord Erosion Bone sneered, neither dodging nor evading. He crossed his arms over his chest, and black light surged from his two massive Devilish Claws, instantly condensing into a pitch-black Devilish Shield covered with twisted, suffering faces!

Hiss—!!!

The Golden Sun light beam slammed violently onto the Devilish Shield! There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a harsh, intensely corrosive sound, like a red-hot branding iron plunged into ice water! Countless faces on the Devilish Shield let out silent, mournful wails, the shield's surface fluctuated violently, and black Qi steamed wildly! The power of the Golden Sun light beam was also rapidly depleting!

Just as the two sides were in a stalemate, with Golden Sun and Devilish Qi fiercely consuming each other, and light intertwining into a dazzling sea of light—

Buzz—!!!

At the center of the island, the giant pitch-black Devilish Pillar, which had originally only spewed dense Devilish Qi, suddenly emitted an even deeper, more ancient, terrifying hum, as if from the deepest abyss of the Nine Nether! On the surface of the pillar, the previously blurred Devilish patterns suddenly lit up, emitting a pure, heart-pounding, pitch-black light filled with endless dead silence and decay…

That was not ordinary Devilish Qi! That was a deeper, fouler power, closer to the Origin of evil in the world!

True Devilish Qi!

Rumble!!!

Like a floodgate opening! An indescribable, ink-like viscous, yet seemingly formless and insubstantial, pitch-black airflow suddenly gushed out from the top of the Devilish Pillar! The moment this airflow appeared, heaven and earth lost their color!

The sky, stained ink-black by the Devilish Qi, instantly became even deeper, more despairing, as if even light had been completely swallowed! The sea surface, where dark green waves had previously surged, strangely… calmed down the moment it touched the edge of this airflow! It wasn't calm after a storm, but dead silence! As if all life had been instantly stripped away and frozen! The reefs near the Devilish Pillar silently became tainted with a gray, lifeless color, rapidly weathering into sand!

"Ahhh—!"

"No! My body!"

"Help… help me!"

Below, several Cultivators who were slightly closer and fighting Devil Cultivators were swept by a wisp of the escaping True Devilish Qi! Their protective spiritual light extinguished instantly like paper! Their skin visibly became gray, shriveled, and cracked! Their flesh and blood withered and decayed rapidly, as if they had experienced thousands of years of time! They didn't even have time to let out a full scream before they turned into withered bones wrapped in tattered robes in just a few breaths! Even their Divine Souls were completely annihilated by that dead silent Qi!

And those Devil Cultivators who were besieging them, after being swept by the True Devilish Qi, not only did not die, but instead let out even more painful, more frantic roars! Their bodies swelled and twisted violently like balloons, their skin cracking inch by inch, revealing wriggling pitch-black flesh and pale bones beneath! Their eyes were completely consumed by viscous black light, and their aura surged like a volcanic eruption, instantly breaking through the shackles of Qi Condensation and reaching the terrifying level of a pseudo-Purple Mansion! But in their eyes, there was no longer any rationality belonging to "Human Race," only the most primitive, purest desires for destruction and bloodlust! Like Puppets controlled by a higher existence!

"True Devilish Qi?!" Zhao Yuanchen's face instantly turned ashen white like paper when he saw the tragic scene below and felt the pure, dead silent, decaying aura. For the first time, his eyes revealed unconcealable horror, and even a hint of… fear! "Corrosion Bone! You lunatic! You actually dare to Cultivate True Devilish Qi! And draw upon the True Devilish Origin?! You betray the Human Race! You cut yourself off from heaven and earth!"

His voice was like thunder, filled with boundless anger and disbelief, echoing in the ears of every surviving Cultivator!

True Devilish Qi! These three words were like ten thousand years of cold ice, instantly freezing the spark of hope that had just ignited in everyone's hearts due to the arrival of reinforcements!

According to legend, that was the Origin power from True Devils beyond the domain! It was the bane of all living beings in this world! Even a trace of it would erode one's vitality, twist one's Divine Soul, and ultimately turn one into a True Devilish Puppet that only knew destruction! Any Cultivator who Cultivated True Devilish Qi, regardless of their cultivation level, would be regarded as a traitor to the Human Race and a minion of the True Devils, subjected to endless pursuit and killing by all sea regions and all Human Race Cultivators! This was an iron law inscribed in the Bloodline of the Human Race!

Lord Erosion Bone, bathed in the True Devilish Qi gushing from the towering Devilish Pillar, let out a frenzied and satisfied roar. His body swelled again, bone armor covered his entire body, ferocious bone spurs grew at his joints, and his head even faintly showed a tendency to transform into a non-human form! His aura, under the infusion of True Devilish Qi, actually faintly touched the threshold of a true Golden Core! But the price was that his crimson Devilish Eyes now only held chaos, madness, and an extreme craving for destruction!

"Hehehe… Power! This is true power! Zhao Yuanchen! Feel the might of the True Devil!" Corrosion Bone's voice was completely distorted, echoing like metal grinding.

"Run—!!!" Zhao Yuanchen could no longer bother with fighting Corrosion Bone. He used all his strength to let out an earth-shattering roar! His voice was filled with unprecedented urgency and unquestionable command! "Everyone! Scatter and escape! Save whoever you can! This island is ruined! Do not stay! Those contaminated by True Devilish Qi… kill without mercy!"

The Golden Core Elder's roar was like the final death knell! The surviving Cultivators instantly awoke from their extreme fear, and the instinct to survive overwhelmed everything! What battle formations, what camaraderie among fellow disciples, all seemed so pale and powerless in the face of the cataclysmic True Devilish Qi!

"Go!" "Run fast!" "Escape separately!"

Amidst desperate shouts, streaks of escaping light, like a disturbed hornet's nest, instantly fled frantically in all directions! The scene was utterly chaotic!

"Iron Sword Senior!" Lin Feng, enduring the immense weakness from his depleted Divine Power and the burning pain in his Meridians, rushed to Iron Sword Shangren's side, who was being barely supported by Chen Hai and Elder Sun, using Treading Wave Step like lightning.

"Lin Jiu, my young friend… quickly… quickly go! Don't worry about this old man…" Iron Sword Shangren's aura was weak. Looking at the rapidly spreading, grayish True Devilish Qi flow, like a tide of death, consuming everything, his eyes were filled with anxiety and unwillingness.

"Go!" Lin Feng had no superfluous words, a hint of resolve flashing in his eyes!

He abruptly channeled his remaining spiritual power, pushing hard on Iron Sword Shangren's back with both hands! A gentle force, carrying Iron Sword Shangren's emaciated body, flew like an arrow from a bowstring, precisely towards Zhao Tieshan and Liu Qing霜, who were driving a small Flying Shuttle and preparing to escape!

"Catch Senior! Take him away!" Lin Feng's voice was resolute!

"Brother Lin Jiu!" Zhao Tieshan and Liu Qing霜 instinctively caught Iron Sword Shangren, and their eyes instantly turned red as they looked at Lin Jiu on the reef beach below, facing the surging Devilish Tide and several pseudo-Purple Mansion Devilish figures attacking him alone!

They wanted to rush down to rescue him, but reason told them that going down would only be suicide!